WEBVTT STORY REMAINS.HOW THE BABY WAS EXPOSED ANDWHERE IT CAME FROM.SOMEHOW AND SOMEWHERE IN THISHOME THE 10-MONTH-OLD GIRLCAME IN CONTACT WITH FENTANYL,A PAINKILLER OFTEN MIXED WITHHEROIN.>> THE BABY CODED AND WASRESUSCITATED BY THE HOSPITALSTAFF ON TWO OCCASIONS.Reporter: THE FRAGILE INFANTBROUGHT BACK TWICE BEFORE SHEWAS AIRLIFTED TO A BOSTONHOSPITAL AND RELEASED IN THECARE OF A FAMILY MEMBER.>> THE PARENTS HAVE ABSOLUTELYNO IDEA WHERE THE FENTANYLCAME FROM.THEY ARE JUST AS CONCERNEDABOUT THAT AS ANYBODY.Reporter: THE BABY'S MOTHER ISA RECOVERING ADDICT WHO LIVESWITH HER PARENTS.HER ATTORNEY SAID THE MOTHERHAS BEEN CLEAN FOR A YEAR ANDPASSED A DRUG SCREEN TESTTHREE WEEKS AGO.POLICE SAY THEY FOUND DRUGPARAPHERNALIA IN THE MOTHER'SCAR AND OTHER ITEMS IN THEIRSEARCH OF THE HOME.>> THERE WERE NUMEROUS ITEMSOF INTEREST THAT WERE LOOKEDAT AND WE ARE ATTEMPTING TOASCERTAIN THE RELATIONSHIPABOUT THE INCIDENT.Reporter: FENTANYL IS A POE ATTHE PRESENT -- POTENTPAINKILLER.IT HAS LEAD TO THOUSANDS OFOVERDOSE DEATHS.BY COMPARISON THIS IS A LETHALDOSE EVER HEROIN AND THIS IS ALETHAL DOSE OF FENTANYL.THIS IS HOW LITTLE IT TAKES.>> THE QUESTION IS HOW SHEINGESTED IT AND WHERE IT CAMEFROM.Reporter: THE MOTHER'SATTORNEY SAID THE DRUGPARAPHERNALIA BY POLICE IN HERCAR WAS IN FACT OLD, AND NODRUGS WERE FOUND BY POLICE INHER HOME.SO FAR NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN

First responders had to revive a 10-month-old who stopped breathing twice after being exposed to a powerful synthetic opioid drug, police say.

Methuen police officers were sent to a home on Treetop Way around 12:28 p.m. on Saturday after a report that the child was not breathing. The child was rushed to Lawrence General Hospital, where police said she had to be revived twice.

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The child was next flown to Tufts Medical Center for additional treatment.

Hospital tests indicated the child had fentanyl in her system. The powerful drug is 50-100 times more potent than morphine, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“The opioid epidemic knows no boundaries,” Mayor Stephen Zanni said in a statement provided by the Police Department.

"This is an extremely unfortunate situation in which a dangerous drug has ended up in the wrong hands and placed a baby’s life in danger," police Chief Joseph Solomon said.

Police said the Department of Children and Families was notified and the incident remains under investigation.

Investigators said family members are cooperating with police. So far, no charges have been filed.

Family attorney Michael Quinn told our sister station WCVB that the child is doing well and will be discharged from the hospital Monday afternoon. He also said that while the child's mother is a recovering addict, the family does not know how the child was exposed to the drug.

"The (grandparents) and (mother) have absolutely no idea where this fentanyl came from they're just as concerned about this as anyone right now," Quinn said.